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The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12

the grand jury and procured the indict- ment, and that he hoped by swearing against his mother to have her hang ed or sent to prison for life, so that he could get her property. The crowd in attendance was very demonstrative, and the judge more than once let fall re- marks which showed his abhOrrence of the conspiracy so brazenly entered into and so impudently confessed. While he was making this confession Broncho Lon sat with her hands to her face, cry ing, and when she was told to take the stand it was some time before she could proceed. Her first exclamation was:
 ''He is my boy!,
 Then she sobbed in uncomfortable grief, and about fifty old frontiersmen hitched up their trowsers. frightened their belts, cleared their throats, or swallowed hard as they looked first at her and then at the young rascal who was covering in a corner near the jury. It was long time before her lawyer could induce her to answer question, but when the judge admonished her in kindly way she took up the boys nar- rative and denied it most emphatically.
 In his address to the jury the prose- cutting attorney was compelled to admit his disappointment in the way Raper's testimony had turned out,and the coun- sel for Lou gave the boy such an excori- ation as one does not often hear in these parts without revolver accom- paniment. The jury took the case and in five minutes returned verdict ofnot guilty, which was received with wild cheering.
 As soon as the courtroom was cleared the men in town organized for the pur- pose of lynching Lou's hopeful son, but she interceded so eloquently in his be- half that he was permitted to escape.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12

The heroes of the war are fast pa- ssing away. Of the great commanders who met each other in the shock of bat tie, Grant, Meade, Mcclellan, Thomas and Hancock sleep the dreamless sleep of the dead, with Lee, Jackson, Hood, Taylor and others who survived the war, and the only great opposing gen erals who met each other in important battles and still survive are sherman and Johnston. McDowell and Beaure- gard, and Sheridan and Early. Of the many commanders of the Army of the Potomac there is not one among the living excepting Mcdowell, who is re- tired. Scott, Grant, Mcclellan. Burn side, Hooker and Meade have all gone to join the majority, and of the great commanders of the war, Sherman, Sher- idan, Buell., Johnston and Beauregard are the only survivors. There are many heroic and brilliant lieutenants of the great chieftans ot both sides still with us, but the lustre of their achieve ments is dimmed by the chieftains who commanded them.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12

TIE net debt of the United States at the close of the last fiscal year, June 30, 1886, was very little less than thirteen hundred and ninety million dollars, and the annual interest charged upon it was not quite forty-nine and half millions. As 1t is estimated that the present pop ulation of the country is about sixty-one millions, the yearly burden of the debt amounts to only eight-one cents upon each person in the community. We may accordingly state it as q fact that the actual burden of public debt is very far less upon each inhabitant of the United States than it is upon citizen of any other great power in the world, except Germany while, if ability to bear the same burden of taxation were to be con- sidered, the difference would be greater still.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12
Conversational.

Senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, has reported from the committee on pen sions. bill granting the widow of Gen. John A. Logan pension of S2,000 2 year.
 Senator McPherson introduced res olution on the 5th inst, calling on the secretary of the treasury for statement of the indebtedness of the Pacific rail- road companies to the government, on January l, 1887.
 The senate, on the 9th inst, had un- der consideration the conference report on the interstate commerce bill.
 The Indian appropriation bill passed the house on the 9th inst. It appropri- ates $5,ll5,000.
 The military academy appropriation bill has passed the house.
 James w. Reed has rendered his resig- nation as a representative of the Forty
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12
.see. SIP, 900 sI29, 22s, 900

IOtdl.. .$oO, BIZ YlzJ,
 It will be seen, in comparing the figures for 1886 with those for 1885, that there has been an increase of S62, 400, ,000 in capital and capital stock devoted to starting new enterprises and increasing those already existing.
 The figures represent plant and labor for mining coal and ores, for manufac- turing iron and steel, quarrying granite and marble, establishing cotton mills cotton seed oil factories. flour mills congresses for cotton, numbering mills, woodworking establishments, ice fac tories, electric light works, tobacco factories, furniture and wagon fac tories, and great variety of im- portant and new industries. Included in the list may be enumerated as among the most important 2S iron furnaces, 50 ice factories, 6S foundries and machine shops, many of them of large size, Ressemer steel rail mill, 26 miscellaneous iron works, including iron pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc.; 8 stove foundries, 24 gas works, 34 electric light companies, II agricultural implement factories, IA mining and quarrying enterprises, l6 carriage and wagon factories, cotton mills, B fur niture factories, 42 water works, 5S tobacco factories, 92 flour mills, AS lumber mills (not counting small porta- ble saw mills), including saw and plan ing mills, sash and door factories. .stave, handle, shingle, hub and spoke, shuttle block factories, etc., in addition to which there was large number of mis- cellaneous enterprises.
 All this development represents so much money invested in machinery and plant, and so much paid for material and labor. It is scattered through four teen states, giving to many thousands of persons the means of making an honest subsistence, building up centers of industry and civilization in mountain glens, and on hills and plains where there was before but scant popula- tion, and showing in all directions sub stantial progress. There is nothing like these new industries for the Southern people. They preach new gospel of work, which means independence and prosperity.-[N. o. Picayune.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12
woman's seven Ages.
1 [Burllngton Enterprise. ]

All the World Wardrobe And all the girls and women merely weHrersi They have their fashions and their fantasies, And one shc in her time wears many garments Throughout her Seven Stages. First, the baby Refrilied and broidered, in her nurses arms, And then the trim-hosed schoolgirl with her
 flounces And small boy scorning face, tripping, skirt
 waggling, Coqucttislly to school. And then the iilrt. Ogling like Gree, with business aeiliade Kept on her low-cut corset Then bride, Full of strange ilnery, vesturcd like an angel, Yelled vigorously yet valiant of glance, Seeking the woman 8 heaven, Admiration, Even at the altar steps. And then the ma
 tron, In fair rich velvet, with suave satin lined, With eyes severe, and skirts of youthful cut, Full of dress saws and modish instances, To teach her girls their part. The sixth age
 shifts Into gray, yet gorgeous grandmamn1a, With gold pince-nez on nose and fan at side, Her youthful tastes still strong, and worldly
 wife In sumptuary law her auivering voice Prosing of fashion and La Follett, pipes Ofrobes and bargains rare. Last scene of all That ends the sex s Mode-swayed history, Is second childishness and sheer oblivion Of youth taste, passion, all-savc love of Dress.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12
southern Prorr :. Last Year.

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record, which has taken great pains to obtain information concerning the industries and manufacturing enterprises started and put in operation in the Southern states during the year just ended, has published in it's issue of January l, 1887, detailed statistics of the industrial progress of the several Southern states. From them we summarize as follows:
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12
There i. a Balm.

"Is there no balm in Gilead?" yelled a temperance orator at a picnic.
 ''No, but there's some mighty good Ticker down here behind Pete Riley's barn, if you're very dry,n sung out stump-legged man sitting on f-- seat.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12
ninth congress from the Fifth congress sional district of North Carolina.

ninth congress from the Fifth congress sional district of North Carolina.
 Senator Manderson brought before the senate, on the 9th inst, the case of the claim against Mexico for the killing of Capt. CrAwfnra ia command of United s..as.ss.. g .sss.. 5sfvops, in pursuit of Geronimo, by Mexican troops, on Mexican soil, in January, 1886.
 The senate passed the bill on the 9th inst. to carry into effect the treaty with China for the suppression of the opium trade.
 The senate passed, without division, the bill to pension Mrs. Gen. Logan.
 A bill passed the senate, on the 9th inst, increasing the pension of the widow of Gen. Frank F. Blair from $50 per month to S2000 year.
 Thehouse committee on elections on the 9th Inst. finally acted upon the two contested election cases, Page vs. Pierce, the Rhode Island case, and Kidd vs. Steele, the Indiana contest. In the Rhode Island case the majority of the committee decided that neither of the parties are entitled to the seat. The minority report will recommend that the republican member, Pierce, be awarded a seat. In the Indiana case the committee report unanimously in favor of the right of Steele, republican, to retain his seat.
 The interstate commerce bill is still under discussion in the senate.
 The river and harbor bill has been so amended by the house committee as to direct the expenditure of $50,000 of the appropriation for the improvement of the Lower Mississippi river at New Orleans harbors.
 The house committee on revision of laws, on the Sth inst, authorized fla vorable report to the house on the bill to authorize the appointment and pre- scribe the compensation of clerks to senators and representatives who are not chairmen of committees. A favor able report was also ordered on the bill to prohibit the appointment of congress sional committees to attend funerals at the public expense outside of the Dis trict of Columbia and limiting the ex- pense in such cases to the actual cost of burial. A section of the bill also pro- hibits the draping of public buildings except upon order of the president.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12
\ southeast Mis.onri colorea Colony.

T -.
 POPLAR BLUFF, Mo-, January S.--Steps for the consummation of J. Milton Turner's schemes to establish colored colony on the lands lying between the Black and St. Francis rivers, in this (Butler) county, were taken today. A dozen or more families arrived this week, and today they took out claims, each family taking eighty acres of land, signing papers of agreement to let one half of their earnings go to pay for the same. They are given permanent em- ployment, at good wages, and can go to work clearing the timber off their lands whenever they wish, which most of them will do with the opening of spring. Some seventy-five more families will arrive then. The people here now are from Mississippi, Tennessee and Mis- souri, and say they have come to stay. and expect to earn their living and homes by honest work.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12

J. A. STEWART, said to be good au- thority estimates the cotton crop of the South at 6, ,000, 900 bales.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12

THE public debt was reduced Ss,00O,- 003 during December.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04
Throws Down the Bars.

The general passenger agents of Indianapolis
roads yesterday received the following notice
from the vice. chairman Of the Central Traffic
Associations ut having transpired that not
withstandng the prohibition to the contrary, a
number of lines in this association have either
accepted the tickets orders of their Eastern
connections for the harvest excursions of Aug.
30 and Sept. 90 such lines claiming to he IN
able to control the matter, this is to empower
all lines in the association to accept the tickets
cursjon starting from initial association points
on Oct. IL, proximo subject to the conditions
prescribed by the association to rates. desti-
nation, form Of ticket. and limitations for going
and returning passage"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04
General and miscellaneous

The real object of President Pullman's visit
East is said to be to gather in the Baltimore &
Ohio line of sleeping cars.
Last week nine miles Of track was laid on the
Duluth e Manitoba extension of the Northern
Pacific road in thirty-four hours.
1t is claimed that the railway now building
across the Andes to connect Buenos Ayres and
Valparaiso will shorten the Journey between
ENGLAND and Australia fully two weeks.
Owing to the possibility that the air brake will
Lot operate promptly in cases of emergency. tho
Boston q Albany road is equippins its passan-
ger engines with steam driver brakes as we'll
thinking 1t q further safeguard against acct
dents
Massachusetts roads, most of them, on Oct. l
closed their fiscal year, and all lines show
handsome increase in earnings this year except
the Boston e Providence. which suffered
through it's bridge accident and the Fitchburg
road. which had bad times with the floods on it's
weste IN division.
The chief surgeon Of the Missouri Pacific road
reports that he has upw ards Of 20 900 cases
year on the Missouri Pacific system which re-
quire medical or surgical aid. He has perfect
system or making reports by which the details
Of every case treated is made known. About 25
per cent OF the accidents come from employees
making car couplings.
The A, 7. & s. F., last Saturday, drove the
last spike in their track. which gives them line
into Denver of their own. TIE New York finan-
cial papers show disposition to bear the A, T.
d D. f. on it's aggressive policy. The Indicator
says. "The Atchison people have tickled the
vanity of Boston by promising it big railroad
system which should dwarf other systems in
extent and Capitalization Millions Of dollars
have been put into the enterprise blindlv and
without consideration OF what might be the
natural outcome of the Atchison policy"
Yesterday the trains on the st. Paul, Mime
apol1s q Manitoba railway commenced running
from St Paul, the head Of navigation on the
Mississippi river, to Fort Benton, the head of
navigation on the Missouri river, distance / 030
miles This brings the track to within about
forty miles of the Great Falls of the Missouri
River. which will be reached IN a fe DAYS more
The one hundred miles between Great Falls and
Helena will soon be covered. when the Manitoba
company will OWE an unbrokep line from St
Paul to Helena. nearly 1000 miles, the construc-
ton OF which has been pushed at rate urpar-
alleled in the history of railways
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04
Accepting tn. Conditions.

PITTsBURG. Oct 3-The Wabash Western and
Wisconsin Central lines have accepted the con-
nitions of the trunk lines and the roads in the
Central Traffic Association az to the exchange
OF Messenger business. The only important lines
which have not vet accented the conditions re-
ferred to are the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe,
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Chicago
& Alton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04
August Accidents.

The official statement of the accidents oe-
curing on railroads in the nited States In the
month of August published in the Railroad Ga
Eette of Sept 80. shows that the accidents
were alarmingly nu merons and the loss of life
serious the record showing total of 1877
accidents, in which 129 persons were killed and
223 injured. Sixty-five of these accidents were
caused through collisions. sixty-four from de-
railment of trains and eight from causes
known. The Gazette says: bad July,
August exceeds it, the Chatsworth disaster
swelling the number killed to almost double the
July record, while the pj ured are nearly fourth
more numerous. UnquestIonably the widespread
activity in business. making traffic everywhere
heavy, is fully evidenced on the dark side of the
picture we'll the bright 1t is notice
able though, that the passengers killed were all
the victims of one wreck. that at Chatsworth.
In fact, the accidents 10 passenger trains on
good track are few indeed and what there are.
largely the result of negligence in operating
thus confirming the we'll known fact that in track
and rolling stock our best lines have reached
very high state of perfection. This should not
be forgotten in considering the records of the
country a whole. which show up our de6cien-
cies wildly"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04
IniianaDOIis St Louis & Chicago
Railway COMPANY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE AN
~ nual meeting of the stockholders Of the Cncir
natl, indianapolis, St Louis & Chicago Railway Com
pany will be held at the Office of the company in
lndianapolis, Ind on Tuesday the 25th day of Octo
Der, 1887. at II o'clock. noon, for the purpose of
eectng board of directors for the ensuing year and
for the transaction of any other business that may
come before the meeting. The stock books will be
closed from Oct. Is Oct 20 both DAYS inclusive.
K. +. OSBORN. Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04

THE claims as to the curative powers of Hoods
Sars aparilia are based entirely what thu peo-
pie say it has done for ITEM Send to C. l. Hood
& Co. Lowell. Mass. for book containing
statements of many remarkable cures by Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
rhe II. 8 o. and lbs relegraph Line.

The II. a. o. and It's Telegraph Line.
BALTIMORE, Oct. Sit can be stated authori-
lively that the Baltimore & Ohio railroad peo-
pie have at last refused to put up sny more
money to run the telegraph company, and Fri
lay saw the last financial connection between
the two concerns The railroad people have fo-
mally notified the officials of the telegraph COM
pany that on and after Oct they need not expect
any assistance from them. Some weeks ago,
and just before the culmin alton of the syndicate
scheme for the tranfer of the railroad franchise,
= meeting of the higher officials of the telegraph
company was held in Baltimore. with closed
doors. The speculative world was all agog
about the matter, but nothing definite
leaked out of what transpired that occasion.
II is now alleged that this meeting called to
discuss the manner of disposipe OF the telegraph
lines. and it then that President Bates
conceived the idea of securing enough capital to
purchase a controlling interest, and, with the
system retained under his management, make
ii a formidable and at the Same time profitable
rival of the Western Union. To purchase it out
right would require SO, 800 600. while a controll-
Ing interest would cost 81 000 000 It is asserted
that Mr.. Bates secured the cooperation of sever
al large capitalists in his scheme. and to prove
TO them that the expenses could be materially
reduced without interfering with the efficiency
Of the service throughout the country, general
pruning of salaries was inaugurated. The
whole situation is sn interesting one. and puts a
new phase the telegraph, and, in fact, the
entire Baltim ore & Ohio deal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04
BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. ESTABLISHED 81 YEARS
When Block, "a to 40 N. Penn. St., Opposite P. O.
Book keeping Actual Business, Short Hand, English
Branches Penmanship ETC., thoroughly taught
POSITIVELY the only institution in this city pos
sessng the facilities for imparting sound Business
Penmanship, SHORTHAND education. Investigate
Send for Catalogue and Commercial Current FREE.
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FUNERAL NOTICE.

Y OF P.-THE FUNERAL OF ERASTUS E.
IN Fast. member of Marion Lodge. No. 1, K. of
r. who died in Chicago Sunday last, will take
place from the Union Depot in this city to-day Tues
day. at $3.50 o'clock. p. All knights invited,
Castle Hall. at o'clock p attend tho funeral
GEORGE MILLER, G. C.
w. G. TARKINGToN, K. of r.. and S.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
WANTED-MALE HELP.

"ANTED-TEN STONE-CUTTERS, AT ONCE.
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WTANTED-A GOOD LAUNDRYMAN WHO
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Address DENT 81 POWE ELL, Frankfort Ind.
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etc. Commission. MODEL LEDGER Co. s. Bend Ind
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-18
GOING FOR THE GAMBLERS.

ABILENE, Tex, May ls.-Sheriff Gun
ningham arrested all the gamblers in the
city and placed them in jail If the fines
are not paid in a few days they will be
put at work on the poor farm. Deputy
Sheriff Humphrey took the noon train
for Fort Worth TO accompany two gam
blers back, who are short on fines here,
and they will be attaches of the poor
farm If the fines are not satisfied on their
return.
Ten acres of land lying east of the
city and joining the corporate limits was
sold to-day at $50 per acre
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-18
An End to Bone Scraping.

Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg,
H., says: "lIaving received so much
benefit from Electric Bite IS, | feel it
my duty to let suffering humanity
know it. Have had running sore on
my leg for eight years; my doctors
told me would have to have the bone
scrapeG or leg amputatcd. used, in
stead, three bottles of Electric Bitters
and seven boxes of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve, and my leg is now sound and
WELL" Electric Bitters are sold at fifty
cents bottle, and Ducklen's Arnica
Salvc at rs cents per box, by w. H.
Howell 81 Bro.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-18
WACO ITEMS.

WACO, Tex, May 1s "A grand re-
union Of the oldest members OF the
Methodist Church South, in this county,
( will be held at the Fifth Street church
in this city to-day.
Fines assessed in the city court yester-
day aggregated 1886. All this money
goes directly into the city treasury, as
the perquisite system is now done away
with.
Yesterday W. j. Banton, Il white boy
who lives few miles in the coun-
try, while pulling up weeds in garden,
was bitten by a7copperhead snake, and
1t is thought he will die.
1t is stated, by man who says he
knows, that there are three Chinese
opium joints in Waco
Shortly after 3 o'clock Tuesday night
a fire broke out in the saloon of Joe
Leito, at the corner OF Bridge street and
the plaza. Investigation proved that an
attempt had been made to burn the
place. A large wooden bucket, filled
with coal oil, and large amount of
other combustible matter which had
been set on fire was found in the cellar.
AS there was no current of air through
the cellar, the combustible matter burned
slowly, and thus it was discovered by
the dense smoke coming from it. An
attempt at arson seemed so plain that a
fire inquest was held by Justice Makeig
and large number of witnesses were
examined All the evidence went to
show that the fire must have originated
at the hands of some one DESTROYS of de-
stroying the property. Joe Leito and
NJ. Marie, proprietors of the saloon were
bound over in the sum of $500 each to
await the action Of the grand jury. They
made the bond and were released.
The Waco Water Company have filed
a mortgage in the county clerks office
to secure the issue of 105 bonds of the
denomination of $1,000 each. Mr. w.
w. Seley is named as trustee. Date
of papers is Nov. 4. 1856.